Chuchu Zhang, PhD

Dr. Zhang holds a primary appointment at UCLA in the Department of Physiology.  She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, where she worked with Dr. David Julius studying pain-producing toxins from venomous animals. Her work utilized these natural toxins to identify and manipulate pain-related signal transduction machineries in sensory neurons. Her work has uncovered fundamental aspects of the area postrema, including cell types, receptors, and nausea-related neural circuits. Her research interests are focused on the molecular and circuit mechanisms of nausea.